Green Accounting: Comprehension of Accounting Students

DOI

10.2991/iceb-15.2015.23How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Green Accounting, Environmental Accounting, Discourse Analysis

Abstract

Increasing of society awareness supported by unlimited information access nowadays causing environmental issues always take widespread attention from any holder. Green accounting is an answer from accounting towards environment degradation issues which caused by business activities. In this terms, accounting students have a preferential position. They have been educated on accounting and they are university students, who also considered as idealism agent of change. They will determining how accounting in future. The aim of this research is to get a comprehension perspective of accounting students toward green accounting topic based on their background study as university students for four years or more. Data collected from four students and analyzed used discourse analysis method. The result is accounting students consider that green accounting is very important to learn and environmental awareness of an accountant also can indirectly encouraged company to implement green accounting method. It shows that accounting students have high concern about their profession to influence shareholders

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© 2015, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Shofiana Hanifa
AU  - Abdul Kahar
PY  - 2015/05
DA  - 2015/05
TI  - Green Accounting: Comprehension of Accounting Students
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Economics and Banking 2015
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 156
EP  - 165
SN  - 2352-5428
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/iceb-15.2015.23
DO  - 10.2991/iceb-15.2015.23
ID  - Hanifa2015/05
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